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Saturday, May 27, 2017

Alhamdulillah! Once again we are blessed to be alive today to be able to perform our Fasting in the Blessed Month of Ramadan by the Grace and Mercy of Allah the Almighty.I take this opportunity to wish each and every fasting Muslim ' Ramadan Mubarak' and pray that we get to fulfill all the obligations that we are enjoined to perform in this sacred month.May our acts of worship be accepted by our Supreme Creator and be rewarded by His Forgiveness and Mercy by entering us into His Jannah.Ameen Ya Rabbal Alamin.

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Most of the villagers houses which used to be made of wooden planks and zinc roofed are slowly being renovated to brick walled houses and the marshy surroundings being stabilized with soil and sand.

As you can see in the photo above, those who are better off today have even upgraded their once dilapidated wooden houses to bungalows with better roofing as evidenced by the scene above.Many can afford to buy Malaysian made cars such as depicted in the photo here. Alhamdulillah! Praise be to Allah!

There were quite a number of goats wandering about rummaging through the trash heap and bleating their way across the village road in search of food. It was fun hearing them bleat as they pleased whilst scampering away whenever a motorcycle or car approached.

Soon, we will no longer see the dilapidated wooden houses at Tanjong Agas anymore as each villager who can afford to will upgrade and renovate his or her house according to their means. In a way, you can say that development is taking place at this rural area. In fact, the village is even connected to the internet courtesy of the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development which has enabled free WiFi for the area.

A notice board announcing the free WiFi connection to the internet provided for the Tanjong Agas villagers by the Ministry for Rural and Regional Development.

The current Minister is the highly controversial YB Dato Seri Haji Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who is known for his out of the norm approaches to help elevate the condition of the Malay Muslims and the general Malaysian population. He was quite vocal in asking the greedy traders especially those from the Chinese community to bring down prices of goods here in Malaysia for refusing to do so even after the Government had reduced the petrol and diesel fuel prices.

He received quite a lot of support for his firm stand despite the witch hunt to pressure the PM to sack him spearheaded by DAP, the main Chinese majority Opposition party here.

There is a bridge connecting the inner part of the Tanjong Agas village to the main road. There was quite a heavy traffic plying on the bridge as villagers drove their cars and rode motorcycles and bicycles across incessantly.

The bridge connecting villagers to the Tanjong Agas main road.

Safety seems not important to these boys as they ride a motorcycle at Tanjong Agas.

Guess, they learn to do so from their elders seen above riding motorcycles without crash helmets as well.

Girls too ride without donning crash helmets along the village road. So, don't be surprised if there are serious injuries or even fatalities if an accident was to take place here as a result of these villagers nonchalant attitude when riding motorcycles.

Amongst the bridge road users was this girl riding her bicycle and a goat as they passed each other.

The girl glancing at the bleating goat as it made its way seeking for something to eat at the village area.

An idyllic scene before me as the little Malay girl in her tudung @ hijab cycled away as the bleating goat trotted on the road. Scenes that you can only see at rural areas like Tanjong Agas to this day.

There was a bus bearing the name 'RAHMAT ALAM' plying the road at the Tanjong Agas village. Those without their own mode of transportation would surely be taking this bus to the town.

'Rahmat Alam' means 'Natural Grace' in Malay. It surely lives up to its name as it provides a valuable service to the rural folk to travel at an affordable cost.

A postcard picture scenery at this coastal village where the coconut trees serve as a natural backdrop at the riverbank where small sampans @ boats belonging to the village fishermen are tied up.

It was this photographer's delight to come across beautiful scenes like this and I snapped away under the blistering sun as it was midday and the sun was really quite scorching.

It was quite a contrast of sorts to see dilapidated village houses like this yet having the Astro satellite TV dish fixed to the wooden structure.

Rural they may be but they are not out of touch with what's going on in the world.

With the advent of the smartphone, Tanjong Agas Malay villagers like this man here keep in touch with the latest news and views care of the free wireless internet connection provided by the Malaysian Government.

This is the village grocery store where villagers frequent to buy their needs. One stop center for the latest new, gossips and whatnot. :P

Also the main hangout area for the villagers goats which constantly scavenge for leftovers and whatever is edible from amongst the trash.

If we city dwellers have our motorcars parked nearby, here at Tanjong Agas, some villagers have their sampans just outside by the riverbank.Maybe the villagers need to tidy up their place in order to promote better hygiene and health for themselves instead of letting trash decompose right out side their homes as in the photo here.

Sampans parked at the riverbank, ready to be propelled out to sea in seeking their living from fishing at the South China Sea.

More to come in Part 3, the last part of this Tanjong Agas Mahaguru58's travelogue. Thanks for reading.

Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Recently I was on a road trip with my wife from our 2nd home in Kuantan to the village of Tanjong Agas which is located at the tip of the land projecting out to the South China Sea off the Sultanate of Pahang's royal town of Pekan.It has been more than 8 years since we last visited the place. A lot of changes have taken place since then and we saw development change the way villagers over there live.I was actually looking forward to seeing an Orang Asli hut which I saw situated on a river bank close to the sea back then at Tanjong Agas. I was a bit sad to see that the hut was no more. The Orang Asli family whom I saw back then must have moved into more permanent housing.One scene I remember was the mudflat shoreline riddled with what I believe to be the entrances to the nests of a shrimp like crustacean which is related to the lobster species.

The muddy mounds which I believe to be the entrances to the nests of the Mantis Shrimp or 'Udang Ketak' [photo above] as we Malaysians call them.

I remember writing about Tanjong Agas way back in May 2009 but sad to now see just blank spaces in my blog article where I had posted some photos of the place. The image hosting service which I had used before seems not to be in service anymore thus the missing images.

Nevertheless, now with Google's improved image hosting enabled here in Blogger itself, I am happy to share with you the visuals that I managed to capture during my visit there recently.

Not everyone gets the opportunity to travel and visit far off places like this. I for one am lucky to be married to my darling who is from the East Coast State of Pahang. Hence the chance to explore places like this.

Tanjong Agas has river tributaries like this leading to the South China Sea. I saw many little boats like the above or 'sampan' as they are referred to here in Malaysia being tied to simple wooden jetties or just embedded poles by the riverbank.

There was this picturesque house on the riverbank located at the junction of two river tributaries. Looked very unique.

It has this unique looking roof unlike the many traditional Malay houses which we see in the kampongs @ Malay villages. Quite appealing to a photographer like me.

A fisherman preparing to go out to the sea in his small boat @ sampan at Tanjong Agas.

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